The American University in Cairo Press

Established in 1960 and reorganized in 1984, the AUC Press has become the Middle East’s leading English-language publishing house. Its goals and purposes reflect and support the mission of its parent university in education, research, and cultural exchange through professional publishing and bookselling services.

Its rapidly expanding publishing program of high quality scholarly, literary, and general interest publications on Egypt and the Middle East, currently offers up to 80 new books annually and maintains a backlist of some 800 titles for distribution worldwide. Through its bookstores and distributors in Egypt and abroad, the AUC Press sells more than 300,000 books every year and licenses foreign editions of Naguib Mahfouz and other Arab writers in 40 languages.

• “Recognized as the leading English language publisher in Egypt and the Middle East.”
  -- H.E. Suzanne Mubarak
• “…brilliantly demonstrates the university’s dedication to enhancing Egypt’s cultural life.”
  -- Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz